Richard Lewontin Quotes

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Death isn't something that should necessarily be glorified, but I also don't think it's something that people need to be afraid of. It's just the way it is. There's nothing we can do about it.

We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

Tomorrow is another day toward death.

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

Men come and men go, I have come and I will go when my time comes

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

While life could be evaded, death could not.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

You're dying every minute, but you won't die yet.

Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.

Death, thou shalt die.